Rock Show - IIT Saarang
The two bands this time were Firebrands and Prestorika. Alayan was going to come with me but he cancelled out since the results were announced and he wanted to attend a recruitment drive the next day. I met up with Suren and his friends outside the Open Air Theatre (OAT). George was hanging about somewhere and came into the OAT only later.
Firebrands opened the show. They were some band from Singapore that had two guitarists, a lead singer, a drummer and a DJ. And they sucked. They sucked so bad!
The lead singer was a fat guy with zero stage presence, an uninspiring voice and he didn’t sing! He either spoke or yelled out the lyrics. It was totally lame. With all his marching around waving the mike stand he resembled Cartman (from Southpark). Give me my money back!
Next up were Prestorika. All I heard for the next hour or so was noise. Heavy beats, distortion and screaming. It was really really loud. Suren says they were good but I didn’t think much of them.
Prestorika did manage to play Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark at the end really well. I wonder why they choose to play deafening music instead of songs like that.
After downloading some songs from their site I conclude that the sound was just turned up way too loud. They sound pretty good in the studio recordings! I should buy some earplugs to wear to these concerts.
Prestorika opens for Megadeth later in March this year. An interesting thing is that Prestorika are licensing their work under a Creative Commons licence as seen on the downloads page.
He is your friend!!
January 29th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
I downloaded “Not my way”. Sounds good, but IMO they play it way too gently.
Try Yarabi, both music and song lyrics are soooooo fucking ambitious
January 29th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Haha, I knew you’d have hated it. Well, also because you told me before posting this blog, but I was SO sure you’d have hated the show!!
January 29th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
And I heard they were giving away Nokia Music Express phones to pretty girls who instead of head banging were banging into other participants.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
What would you want? Nokia Music Express or pretty girls?
January 29th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Anusha, how could you be so sure? It’s not often that I hate rock shows.
Arun, what actually happened was they had a head banging and air guitar contest on stage with random people from the crowd. The crowd was supposed to pick the winner by cheering loudest for their choice. Except for one guy the rest of the girls and boys were booed. (They all really sucked. The girls were actually dancing!) The one guy turned out to be from IIT-M so the guy from Nokia picked the girl before him. This was met with massive booing and people showing thumbs down all around the OAT.
January 29th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
The guy from Nokia. Ha ha. Melbin. Ha ha. Poor fellow, it’s his job. He’s hilarious. He’s not from Nokia, he’s hired to do these shows, he used to be on 107.1 quite often.
Must’ve been where you were dude, because it sounded not too great but fine to me where I was. A bit heavy on the distortion though. Dude CC! That’s so enlightened, man.
January 30th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Well he was wearing a Nokia T-shirt.
Upcoming bands have to promote their material. No point in claiming to have full copyright and all. Once they become big shots they’ll forget all about it.
January 30th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Dude, it’s one thing to offer it for download like other people do. It’s a completely different thing to actually make it clear that they’re using a CC licence.
January 30th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Oh yeah? Scroll to the bottom of my blog and see. I do it just to fill up that space. It looks pretty now.
January 30th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
One of my friends said Firebrands sucked so bad that he actually threw the free CD back at them.:)
January 30th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Yes, but you’re not a band.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:23 am
Arun, they really did suck that much. I didn’t see any of the CDs land on stage though.
George, the point is that a lot of people use it without actually meaning it.